About

Judy Stach’s paintings reflect an intimate understanding of life along the shore, with seascapes and landscapes coming alive with children at play, sailboats breezing by and gardeners lovingly tending flowers. Her paintings are displayed in public, private and corporate collections nationwide and in Europe and her works have been featured in publications, including The New York Times and The Artist’s Magazine, since 1999. She is an Artist Member of the Salmagundi Club and Audubon Artists both in New York City. She holds Signature Status in the American Impressionist Society and Plein Air Florida. Judy is also the founder of The Plein Air Painters of the Jersey Coast. She has studied with some of America’s finest artists including renowned artist and author, Richard Schmid, as well as other classically trained artists including Timothy R. Thies, David Leffel and Anthony Ventura. A lifelong resident of New Jersey, she currently resides in Oceanport with winter breaks in Vero Beach, FL.

 

Her work is represented by: Beauregard Fine Art, Rumson  |  Frederick Galleries, Spring Lake  |  WestWindFineArt.com, Keene, NH

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In 2020, a forty-year retrospective of Judy’s work entitled “Looking Back, Moving Forward” will appear at the Guild of Creative Art
in Shrewsbury and Frederick Galleries in Spring Lake. Dates and times to be announced soon.

 

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  • "Judy Stach’s work is full of color and lively with impressionistic brushwork. Her love of Nature and especially her rendering of water are evident as is her passion for the light that fills her work.”

    - Timothy R. Thies

More About Judy

A lifelong resident of New Jersey and a part-time resident of Florida for over forty years, Judy Stach’s intimate understanding of life along the shore is reflected in her oil paintings of seascapes and landscapes which come alive with children at play, sailboats breezing by and gardeners lovingly tending flowers. In recent years, she has developed a love for croquet and has painted scenes of players at multiple clubs in Florida and New Jersey, all enjoying this wonderful game. Her painting style is impressionist/realist, painting from real life (en plein air) and photographs, often combining both techniques to complete a painting using the full range of colors, values and light found only in nature.

 

Judy is a Signature Member of the American Impressionist Society, Audubon Artists and plein Air Florida. She is also an Emeritus Member of the Salmagundi Club in New York City and Founder and Co-President of the Plein Air Painters of the Jersey Coast (PAPJC). Judy became the Artist in Residence for the Orchid Island Golf and Beach Club (Florida) in 2022 and will continue in that position through 2026. She is currently represented by the Frederick Gallery in Spring Lake, New Jersey, West Wind Fine Art, Keene, NH and Jupiter Gallery, Little Silver, NJ. Her work can also be viewed on her website: judystach.com.

 

Her work has been featured in Jersey Shore Magazine and the Travel & Leisure Guide in 2007, 2011, 2013, 2016, 2017 and 2019-2026 (inclusive), with front cover pages in 2007, 2016, 2017, 2019, 2020 and 2026. Also, in the 2020 Spring edition of Jersey Shore Magazine, an eight-page retrospective entitled “The Clamdigger’s Daughter” appeared along with the cover page painting. Her paintings also appeared in the hard cover books, To the Shore Once More, Volume III (six paintings featured) and Spring Lake Revisited. She was written up in the December 2019 edition of American Art Collector Magazine in association with her inclusion in the Keene, NH, Holiday 2019 Show for West Wind Fine Art along with her mentors, foremost artists Richard Schmid and Timothy R. Thies. In the October 2023 edition of American Art Collector magazine, her work and an in-depth discussion of her relationships with major artists such as Richard Schmid, Nancy Guzik and Timothy Thies were featured in the article, “An Enduring Influence.” She was a panelist along with Quang Ho, Scott Burdick, Kathy Anderson and Daniel Keys discussing Richard Schmid’s influence on giving back to the art world as part of a retrospective for Richard Schmid in September 2016 in Denver, Colorado. Her paintings have appeared in Artist’s Magazine, Best of Florida Artists and Artisans, American Artists Workshop Magazine, Plein Air Magazine, Fine Art Connoisseur Magazine, NJ Design Magazine, Cape Cod Review and Inside NJ Magazine. In addition, an article about her painting was included in Vero Beach Magazine in 2005. In 2011, The New York Times featured her painting, “On the Rocks”, in the Arts Section. In 2025, she was featured as a “Spotlight Artist” on the website of Rosemary Brushes, a premier artist brush company in England.

 

Through her connection with PAPJC, Judy has spearheaded several charitable art-related events. Every two years starting in 2014, PAPJC held a reception and art sale to benefit Family and Children’s Service in Long Branch, NJ. This multi-program agency serves the most vulnerable of our population in the Mid-Atlantic region. The next show is scheduled for August 2026. In addition, she has organized art sale-based benefit receptions for Alex’s Lemonade Stand (Childhood cancer), the Women’s Breast Center of Monmouth Medical Center and the Parker Clinic in Red Bank, NJ.

 

Judy has won numerous awards at juried shows throughout the country. Her collectors include individuals, corporations, national parks, municipalities, hospitals and other health facilities and colleges throughout the United States and abroad. Judy is also an instructor and mentor to other artists in New Jersey and Florida.

 

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Major Current and Past Associations:                

​American Artist’s Professional League

American Impressionist Society

Art Alliance of Red Bank, NJ

Audubon Artists

Catherine Lorillard Wolfe Art Club

Guild of Creative Art

Monmouth County (NJ) Arts Council

North Shore Art Association of Gloucester

Oil Painters of America

Plein Air Florida

Plein Air Painters of the Jersey Coast

Plein Air Painters of the Treasure Coast

Salmagundi Club